Webinar: Using Health IT to Enable Greater Care Coordination Across Acute and Outpatient Settings of Care

Ilana Graetz, Ph.D., University of California Berkeley;
David Dorr, M.D., Oregon Health & Science University;
Anuj Dalal, M.D., F.H.M., Brigham and Women’s Hospital

This session will highlight various projects that seek to understand how improvements in care coordination may be achieved by leveraging electronic systems and modes of communication. Specifically, presenters will provide a summary of projects such as: the use of automated emails to notify both attending physicians and primary care physicians PCPs of a patient’s test results; findings from a randomized trial that implemented a care coordination information system to test the effect of patient outcomes, utilization, and overall quality improvement among disparate clinics stratified by team-based incentives versus traditional pay-for-performance reimbursements, and a broad study examining the impact of EHR use on care coordination and quality improvement.